David McDonald wrote:
> Yes Robert is correct about the bug in this converter. Here is the
author's
> response.
> Regards - David
>
> Hi David,
> You found a bug. This issue is regards the Northing coordinate. If you
> enter 6082675-10000000 = -3917324 as the Northing, you'll get the correct
> lat/long values. This has to do with a peculiarity in the translation
> engine used on the site. I'll fix it soon I hope.
I missed the start of this thread, so forgive me if I state the obvious.
As far as I know all GPS units can do this conversion internally, so that's
probably the easiest way - even though the "keyboard" is rather laborious
for doing lots of them. Another way around this is to enter UTMs in a text
file and upload it to the GPS, then convert later. I've done this a few
times with my Garmin38. I also have some old DOS software that does UTM -->
lat/long conversions and vice versa quite easily. Let me know if you want
to try that & I'll zip them up for you & e-mail them.
L.
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